None of the to-do lists are going to work for me unless I pay. I have too complicated of to-do list needs. So sad to lose Palm. It was a great relationship while it lasted.
I will start with the best option so far, Any.do, and see if I can make it work. If not then I will try Remember the Milk, and try it in paid version... Then move to Todoist if that relationship doesn't work out.
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11/14/15 Conclusion:
I tried Any.do for a while and found it was nice and worked very well with gmail but it just wasn't enough power for my needs.
I paid for Remember the Milk and have not regretted it. Love it. It doesn't have a good gmail connection but I have made it work. It syncs well across all my platforms, and it can be sorted well. I have widgets that help me easily add new items with voice or typing on my phone or tablet. I have paid for 2 years more.
Good - Easy to voice add items, easy to see, any.do moments are lovely
Bad - cannot edit task easily on phone, no priorities, cannot move task to new list easily
Conclusion: Best one if I don't want to pay and can only have 5 tasks a day and not sort by category.
Good - Nice layout, easy to find items, easy to add, syncs with Evernote, can work in Google Calendar, and gmail. However I got this message: You are currently using Gmail version "73287520". This version is unsupported by Remember The Milk for Gmail.
Bad - Sync only one time a day without paying, no notifications without paying
Conclusion: Best one if I don't need notifications, and I only want to sync once a day.
Good - Lots of options, Syncs very quickly, email popup, emails can be sent
Possible - Might Sync with Evernote, and Google Calendar, not sure if it costs
Bad - , no notifications without paying, messy looking, Complicated, hard to view completed tasks, must be in each project (hence, must remember where it was and click around to find it if it accidentally got checked off in todays list)
Conclusion: Best one if I don't need notifications and can deal with messy look and reminders everywhere to purchase it
$27 a year
Good - works with gMail.
Bad - App on phone is very unable to do much and ugly. Perhaps these extensions would help. But he says he only uses 4 categories. Probably not.
Conclusion - nope, not fancy enough
Nov 2015 Update: I currently use Remember the Milk, but I still use this system. ____________ Don't you just love it when technology helps make your life better!?
First I set the inbox to only show 5 emails (out of over 200). That way I was not overwhelmed and actually wanted to take care of those 5 emails because it wasn't too much. - This was a method learned fromThe FlyLady.
Then I used the Evernote web clipper to save all the important information that was hanging around in my email but didn't need to be in emails. I clipped it, filed it and have it searchable on all my devices (phone, computer, tablet).
Things that needed taken care of I made a to-do item for in Any.do with the Any.do extension in Gmail, right at the bottom of the email.
And emails that I needed to look at later I used Boomerang to resend them to me when needed or if someone doesn't respond within a set time it sends me back the email. Beautiful harmony of the 3 technology along with the motivation from Flylady and I cleared it all up! Years and years worth in that inbox! Wow. www.flylady.net/ https://evernote.com/ www.any.do/ www.boomeranggmail.com/
Most Recent Test: Ingredients 12 c. powdered milk 2 c. water ---blend, microwave until steaming, add to : 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/2 c. swerve sugar replacement 1/3 c. cornstarch 1 oz. unsweetened chocolate chopped into little pieces 1/3 c. cocoa powder
- blend until sound changes from it thickening, about 3 minutes, then add --- 2 eggs - blend 1 minute - 1 T. butter 1 teaspoon vanilla extract - blend 10 seconds, pour in custard dishes and cool -------------------------
set up immediately, just right on sweetness
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First test was perfect but I forgot to record exactly what I did. Second test failed. It didn't set up and it was bitter.
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Third test I used these ingredients:
- blend for 3 minutes, then add ---
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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It was good tasting, but it didn't set up at all. I want to make it work with powdered milk, because that is what I have access too. Perhaps it just needs more thickener, i.e. corn starch.
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4th try:
Ingredients 3 ounces chocolate chips 1 ounce white chocolate chips 3 tablespoons cocoa powder 5 tablespoons cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 cups mixed powdered milk 2 T. agave nectar
- blend for 3 minutes, then add --- 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
-------------------------- Good tasting and it set up before it made it to the fridge!!!! Success. Now to do it without the sugar in the chocolate chips!
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5th try: Ingredients 1/4 cup cocoa powder 5 tablespoons cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons agave nectar
2 1/2 cups steaming, prepared powdered milk (2 1/4 c. water, 2/3 c. powder) - blend for 3 minutes, then add --- 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract --blend a bit more, chill
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Not sweet enough ---------------------------------- 6th try: Ingredients 1/4 cup cocoa powder 1 bar (1.4 oz) dark chocolate 5 tablespoons cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 5 tablespoons honey
2 1/2 cups steaming milk - blend for 3 minutes, then add --- 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract --blend a bit more, chill
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not sweet enough --------------------------------- 7th try: Ingredients 3 ounces chocolate chips 1 ounce white chocolate chips 3 tablespoons cocoa powder 5 tablespoons cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 cups mixed powdered milk 2 T. agave nectar
- blend for 3 minutes, then add --- 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract -------------------------
8th try: Ingredients 1/3 cup cocoa powder 1/3 c. cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 oz. honey
2 1/3 cups steaming milk - blend for 3 minutes, then add --- 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract --blend a bit more, chill
-------------------------- Didn't fully set up, too honey tasting, sweet enough, good, but not perfect. --------------------------------- Not 9th try but 9th posted : Ingredients 4 ounces chocolate chips (stevia sweetened) 5 tablespoons cornstarch 3 tablespoons cocoa powder 1/2 c. water 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 T. honey 1/2 c. powdered milk 2 cups steaming water
- blend for 3 minutes, then add --- 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ------------------------- not sweet enough, didn't set up --------------------------------- Not 10th try (modified from Vita-Mix cook book) : Ingredients 2/3 c. powdered milk 1 3/4 c. water ---blend until steaming, about 3 minutes--- 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 c. swerve sugar replacement 1/4 c. cornstarch 1/4 c. dark chocolate chips (stevia sweetened) 1/4 c. cocoa powder
- blend until sound changes from it thickening, about 3 minutes, then add --- 1 egg - blend 1 minute - 1 T. butter 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract - blend 10 seconds, pour in custard dishes and cool -------------------------
set up immediately, just right on sweetness, just a little too thick
Based on the research of this earlier blog post, the 2 shillings the boy was paid would be worth about £7.60 GBP or $11.70. Pretty good pay for 5 minutes of work. One Shilling GBP in 1850 had the purchasing power of about £3.80 GBP today, or $5.85.(from this site)
"Half-a-crown – 12.5 cents
Shilling – 5 cents
Sixpence – 2.5 cents
Penny – Approximately half a cent
Farthing – Approximately one-tenth of a cent
So when the story mentions Bob’s salary of 15 shillings a week, you can easily see, even at that time, how measly it was. Mrs. Cratchit must have seriously splurged to buy those ribbons on her dress for sixpence. When A Christmas Carol was first published, it sold for 5 shillings a copy, cheaper than many books of the period, but still quite a luxury."
Reproduced from a c.1870s photographer frontispiece to Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
One Shilling GBP in 1850 had the purchasing power of about £3.80 GBP today, or $5.85.(from this site)
So, 15 shillings would be £3.80 x 15 = £57 a week, or $89.07. (from this site)
So he would make about $89 a week and $4628 a year, assuming he works every week of the year, which considering Scrooge won't easily let him off for Christmas he probably does work that much. I doubt very many families could support so many children on that amount. If he worked a 40 hour work week, that would be $2.23 an hour.
Last night we watched Dr. Who. "In the 2007Doctor Who episode "42", a sequence of happy primes (313, 331, 367, 379) is used as a code for unlocking a sealed door on a spaceship about to collide with a star. When the Doctor learns that nobody on the spaceship besides himself has heard of happy numbers, he asks, "Don't they teach recreational mathematics anymore?"" (Happy number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
I learned about happy prime numbers. Dr. Who said, "Any number that reduces to one when you take the sum of the square of its digits and continue iterating it until it yields 1 is a happy number, any number that doesn't, isn't. A happy prime is both happy and prime." What?!
The Wikipedia article sited above clarified with some examples:
I read the book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 3 The Last Straw. I thought it was very negative and the main character, Greg, lives his life as a victim. It is interesting and entertaining but I don't feel that it is good to show children how to live as a victim.
The character often tries to fix his problems, but usually they are solved not by his abilities but by accident. I won't recommend this book to others.
I read this article about root canals. They cause a problem because below the root are tiny tubes that run for a mile (if laid out) where bacteria and problems can breed. If you take out the center of the tooth and cap it off it creates a breeding ground for problems. They said that no other body part is left in the body when dead, why leave a dead tooth? They recommend pulling the tooth and scraping the area out that has the tubules too. I am glad I have not had a root canal!
A word or two for those not from the United States, the South or just too dang-gone young to know. Back during the time of this show, huge portions of the Southern United States (including most of North Carolina--where the show is set) were officially 'dry'--meaning that ANY sale or use of alcohol was prohibited--well after the national experiment with Prohibition ended in 1933. Other municipalities allowed only lower alcohol consumption and sales--such as lower alcohol beers.
Calponia harrisonfordi is a species of spider discovered in 1993 by the arachnologist Norman I. Platnick, and named after the film actor Harrison Ford to thank him for narrating a documentary for the Natural History Museum in London. Wikipedia
English: The "Supermoon" of March 19, 2011 (right), compared to a rather "average" moon of December 20, 2010 (left): note the size difference. Images by Marco Langbroek, the Netherlands, using a Canon EOS 450D + Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar MC 180mm lens. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It is when the moon is really close to the earth and is either a New Moon or a Full Moon. There will be 5 super moons in 2014. "Richard Nolle, is credited with coining up with the term supermoon. He defines them as: . . . a new or full moon which occurs with the moon at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth." ('Supermoon' kicks of 2014 | WCNC.com Charlotte)
